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L. B. WHITE, D. JACKSON & M. VAN BUREN.

DEVICE FOR REGULATING AND ENRIGHING ILLUMINATING G-AS.

No. 341,197. Patented May 4, 1886.

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WITNESSES INVENTOR v J. w/MC 4/ I BY Mg ATTORNEYS.

NlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LElVIS B. KVHITE, DANIELJAOKSON, AND MARTIN VAN BUREN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO LEON ABBETT, OF JERSEY CITY, N. J. I

DEVICE FOR REGULATING AND ENRICHING ILLUMINATING-GAS.

forming part of Letters Patent No. 3%1197, dated May 4, 1886.

Application filed October 20, 1885. $erial No. 180,433. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Beitknown that we, LEWIS B.VHITE, DAN- IEL JACKSON, and hIARTlN VAN BUREN, all of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Imp roved Device for Regulating and Enriching Illuminating Gas, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in devices for regulating and enriching or carbureting ordinary gas for illuminating and heating purposes.

The object of our invention is to provide a new and improved device of this kind, which is simple in construction, occupies very little space, and is not apt to get out of order, and which can be adjusted to regulate only, or to regulate and enrich at the same time.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts and details, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figurel is a crosssectional view of our improved gas enricher and regulator. Fig. 2 is a detail bottom view of the regulating-valve. Fig. 8 is a detailed section,partlyin side view,

more fully disclosing the conneeting'channel between the channels C and E on opposite sides of the plug M.

The blockA is provided with a neck, B, which is connected by the channel 0 with a tapered central bore, D, the lower end of the bore D being connected by the channel E and the channel F with the tube G, which leads to the gas-conducting pipes. A vessel, H, having the shape of an inverted funnel, is conneeted at its smaller end with the block A, and

with the channels F and Vin the same, and in the said vessel H the two opposite partitions, I, are provided, which are provided at their lower ends with the holes J. The vessel H is provided with the cock K and with the filling-neck L, closed by a screw-cap, K. A tapered plug, M, secured on the upper end of a tube, N, fits in the bore D, and on the lower end of the said tube the two opposite burners,O, are provided, and on the lower end of the said tube the handle P is formed, by means of which the tube can be turned. The plug M has the three channels 1% R" R of which the channels R and R at the top and bottom extend entirely around the plug, and the groove It only partially around the upper groove, It, registering with the channel 0, the middle groove registering with the channel V and the bottom groove, R, registering with the channel E. The channels O and E are connected by the channel X. The valve stem S is provided with a bore, into which the valve-stem T projects, on the lower end of which the val veU is mounted, in which a ring of apertures,V,is formed. A spiral spring, a, surrounds the stem T, between a collar on the stems and a plate, b, on the stem T. In the top of the neck B a bore, 0, is formed, from which the lip (1 projects downward and inward and forms a valve-seat, which fits on the valve within the ring of apertures V.

The above-described device is connected with the gas-pipes at the meter. The plug M has a lug or projection, m, on the bottom of the lower groove, R", and said lug closes the lower end of the channel Xwhcn the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1, but opens the lower end of said channel when the plug is turned.

The operation is as follows: The gas passes through the neck B in the direction of the ar row a, and in order to pass into the channel 0 it must pass through the apertures in the valve U. In case the pressure of the gas is very great, the valve U is'pressed upward automatically and the distance between the valve U and the valve-seat formed by the lip d is decreased, thus permitting less gas to pass. \Vhen the pressure decreases, the valve descends and more gas can pass, and so on. The gas is thus regulated automatically, according to the pressure. 13y turning the valve-stem S the valve can be closed entirely to shut off the gas altogether. The gas passes from the channel 0 into the upper part of the plug M. which is hollow above the partition a in said plug, and then passes through the channel W into the vessel H, which contains some rich hydrocarbon. As the vessel H is provided with the partitions I, having the holes J, the gas is compelled to circulate in said vessel IOO before it reaches the outlet-channel F, and-is thus enriched. Some of the gas passes from the channel E through the lower hollow part of the plug M into the pipe N, and through the same to the burners 0, where it is consumed and heats the hydrocarbon in the vessel H. By turning the plug M the communication between the channel 0 and the channel \V is interrupted, as the groove B does not extend entirely around the plug M. The lower end of the channel X is opened. The gas now passes from the channel 0, through the channel X,into the channel E and off through the pipe G,the gas-enriching device being cut off entirely.

Having thus fully described onrinvention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination,with a gas-enrieher and a gas-governor,of a coek-casing provided with channels leading to the gasenricher and to the governor, and of a single plug for controlling both channels, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with an annular funnel-shaped vessel for receiving hydrocarbon, of a cock having its casing connected with the said vessel, and of apcrtured partitions in the saidvessel, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination, with a block containing a three-way cock, of a gas-enricher and a gas-regulator connected with the said block and controlled by said three-way cock, sub stantially as herein shown and described.-

4. The combination,with a three-way cock, of a vessel for receiving hydrocarbon, connected with the casing of said cock, a gas pipe projecting from said cock, and of burners on the said pipe for heating the hydrocarbon in the saidvessel,substantially as herein shown and described.

5. The combi'nation,with a three-way cock,

'2 eerie? of a vessel for receiving hydrocarbon, connected with the same, a filling-neck on said vessel, a residuun1-cock on said vessel, a gaspipe projecting from the cock-plug, and of gas-burners on the said pipe, for the purpose of heating the hydrocarbon in the vessel, sub stantially as herein shown and described.

6. The combination, with the block A, having the channels 0, E, and V, of which the channels 0 and E are connected by the channel X, of the valve-plug M, having the three grooves E, R and R, the vessel H, connected with the block, and in communication with the channels V and E, substantially as herein shown and described. 7 7

7. The combination,with the block A, having the channels 0, E, and \V, the channels 0 and E being connected by the channel X, of the hollow plug M, having the partition n,and the grooves E, R and It, and of the vessel H, connected with the block, and in communication with the channels V and E, substan tially as herein shown and described.

8. The combination, with a valve-stem, of a sliding stein in the same, and of a valve on the said sliding stem, substantially as herein shown and described.

9; The valve having a ring of apertures of such diameter that the valve-seat for the valve fits within said ring of apertures,substantially as herein shown and described.

10. The combination, with a hollow valve stem, of a sliding valve-stem in the same, a valve on the lower end of the sliding stem, and of a spring for pressing the sliding valvestem downward, substantially as herein shown and described.

LEWIS 13. WHITE. DANIEL JACKSON. MARTIN VAN RUBEN.

\Vitnesses:

Oscar: F. GUNZ, EDGAR TATE. 

